John Paul Larkin (13 March 1942 – 3 December 1999), better known by his stage name Scatman John, was an American musician who created a fusion of scat singing and dance music, best known for his 1995 hits Scatman (Ski Ba Bop Ba Dop Bop) and Scatmans World. A stutterer, Larkin stated that scatting was turning my biggest problem into my biggest asset. Scatman John sold millions of recordings worldwide and was named Best New Artist in the Echo Awards in both Japan and Germany. He was a recipient of the American Speech-Language-Hearing Associations Annie Glenn Award for outstanding service to the stuttering community and National Stuttering Association Hall of Fame.
Posted on: Wed, 17 Dec 2014 10:12:06 +0000
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